Weekly Viz 2019-12-16

The Spurs Have Never Been This Bad At Defense – NBA Defensive Ratings

About Makeover Monday

MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”

Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.

The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.

Makeover Monday 20191216

This week’s data is about the trend of defensive rating of NBA teams, and specifically, San Antonio Spurs’ historically low defensive rating. The original article and viz can be fuond here. I am not very familiar with all these NBA teams and their strength, yet the viz is pretty straightforward for me to understand.

My Visualization

The original viz show the trend of the relative defensive score to league average, and I am telling the same story by vizzing the trend of defensive score ranking of Spurs.

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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.

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Insights

• The Spurs has always been among the top 5 defensive teams in NBA from 1997 to 2018 (except the three seasons from 2008 to 2011);
• But for the recent two seasons, its ranking has dropped to below 20th…

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